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ZZZ - ZOO100 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Phylogeny > Muscular System > Flashcards

Muscular System Flashcards

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Three principal kinds of movement

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  1. ameboid
  2. ciliary and flagellar
  3. muscular
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  • where movement depends on
  • can change their form to relax or contract
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contractile proteins

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most important contractile system

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actomyosin system

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  • supply force for movement
  • restrain motion
  • act on the viscera to effect their activity
  • muscle sphincters that control the passage of materials out of tubular ducts
  • plays a role in heat production
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muscular system

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  • composes the muscular system
  • capable of contracting when stimulated by nerve impulses
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muscle fibers

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Major categories of muscle:
histology

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  1. skeletal muscle
  2. cardiac muscle
  3. smooth muscle
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  • long, cylindrical, multinucleated muscle fibers, each with striations
  • voluntary control
  • usually associated with bones and cartilages
  • contractions are rapid
  • packed with myofibrils
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skeletal muscle tissue

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chain of repeating units

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sarcomere

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  • occurs only in the heart
  • contains myofibrils and filaments of actin and myosin
  • cells are short, mononucleate, often branched and joint to each other by distinct intercalated discs into sheets involuntary and myogenic
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cardiac muscle tissue

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  • lack striations and almost entirely concerned with visceral functions
  • mononucleate, short and fusiform in shape
  • involuntary, contraction are slow and sustained
  • visceral organs except heart, vessels, tubes, ducts
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smooth muscle tissue

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Major categories of muscle:
role

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  1. somatic muscles
  2. visceral muscles
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  • orient the body of the organism in the external environment
  • striated muscles that are attached to the ligaments, tendons and bones
  • derivatives of the myotomes of mesodermal somites
  • innervated by spinal nerves
  • voluntary
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somatic muscles

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  • pharyngeal arches and its derivatives
  • adductors, constrictors, and levators that operate the jaws and successive gill arches
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branchiomeric somatic muscles

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  • maintain an appropriate internal milieu
  • smooth muscles of hollow organs, vessels, tubes, and ducts, intrinsic musculature of the eyeball, erector
  • muscles of feathers and hair
  • includes cardiac muscle
  • derived from splanchnic mesoderm
  • innervated by the autonomic nervous system
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visceral muscles

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consists of skeletal muscle cells (which, in turn, consist of myofibrils and myofilaments)

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Muscle

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extensions of a muscle’s tough connective tissue sheath (fascia & epimysium) that anchor a muscle to its origin & insertion

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Tendons

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immediate source of energy

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ATP

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when is glucose broken down

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aerobic metabolism

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stores and supply glucose

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glycogen

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20
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energy reserve of muscles

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creatine phosphate

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rely heavily on glucose and oxygen

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slow and fast oxidative fibers

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rely on anarobic glycolysis

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fast glycolytic fibers

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incur during anaerobic glycolysis

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oxygen debt

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Classification of skeletal muscle fiber

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  1. oxidative or glycolytic fibers by ATP source
  2. fast-twitch or slow-twitch fibers by speed of muscle contraction
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  • for slow, sustained contractions without fatigue
  • contain extensive blood supply
  • high density of mitochondria
  • abundant stored myoglobin (protein that binds oxygen more tightly than hemoglobin does)
  • important in maintaining posture in terrestrial vertebrates
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slow oxidative fibers (red muscles)

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two kinds of fast fibers

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  1. fast glycolytic fiber
  2. fast oxidative fiber
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  • lacks efficient blood supply
  • pale in color
  • function anaerobically
  • fatigue rapidly
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fast glycolytic fiber (white muscles)

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  • extensive blood supply
  • high density of mitochondria and myoglobin
  • function aerobically
  • for rapid, sustained activities
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fast oxidative fiber

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importance of tendons in energy storage

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KE is stored from step to step as elastin strain energy in tendons

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30
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Vertebrate muscles

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  1. skeletal, striated, voluntary muscles
  2. non-skeletal, smooth, chiefly involuntary muscles
  3. cardiac muscles
  4. electric organs
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skeletal, striated, voluntary muscles

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  1. axial
  2. appendicular
  3. branchiomeric
  4. integumentary
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homologous to the branchial/pharyngeal muscles from fishes to mammals, straited muscles, innervated by cranial nerves

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branchiomeric

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  • site of attachment that is relatively fixed
  • the bone on which it originates is not displaced when the muscle contracts
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Origin

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34
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site of attachment that is normally displaced by contraction of the muscles

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free part, in between the origin and insertion

36
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long, seamlike tendons in the midventral line of the trunk (linea alba)

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e.g. of raphes

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linea alba

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tough, thin, sheetlike expances of mammalian tendons and ligaments (galea aponeurotica)

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Aponeuroses

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e.g. of Aponeuroses

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galea aponeurotocia

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shape of biceps brachii

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shape of sternomastoid of mammals

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type of skeletal muscle that has muscle fibers that attach to a central tendon at an oblique angle, similar to the shape of a feather

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pinnate muscle

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shape of diaphragm with a central tendon

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domed shaped

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straighten two segments of a limb or vertebral column at a joint

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draw one segment toward another

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displacement toward from the midline

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displacement away from the midline

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cause a part to thrust forward or outward

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protractors

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pull the part back

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retractors

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raise a part

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lower a part

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depressors

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rotation of a part on its axis

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rotators that turn the palm upward

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supinators

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turn the palm downward

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making a part more taut

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compress internal parts

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consrictors

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constrictors that make an opening smaller

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sphincters

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make an opening bigger

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same embryonic origin and nerve supply

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homologies

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  • skeletal muscles of the trunk & tail
  • hypobranchial muscles & muscles of the tongue
  • extrinsic eyeball muscles
  • metameric
  • segmental because of their embryonic origin; arise from segmental mesodermal somites
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axial muscle

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separated by myosepta

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  • serve as origins and insertion of segmented muscles
  • separates myomeres
63
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divides myomeres into dorsal and ventral

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horizontal septum

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above the septum

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below the septum

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separate the myomeres of the 2 sides of the body

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middorsal and midventral septa (linea alba)

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elongated bundles that extend through many body segments & that are located below the expanded appendicular muscles required to operate the limbs

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  • of the abdomen have no myosepta & form broad sheets of muscle
  • are oriented into oblique, rectus, & transverse bundles
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longest bundles

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  1. longissimus group
  2. spinalis group
  3. iliocostalis group
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lies on transverse processes of vertebrae; includes the longest epaxial bundles

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longissimus group

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subdivisions of longissimus group

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  1. longissimus dorsi
  2. longissimus cervicis
  3. longissimus capitis
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  • lies close to neural arches
  • connects spinous processes or transverse processes with those several vertebrae anteriorly
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spinalis group

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  • lateral to longissimus & spinalis
  • arises on ilium & inserts on dorsal ends of ribs or uncinateprocesses
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iliocostalis group

74
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  • shortest bundles
  • remain segmented
  • connect processes (spinous, transverse, & zygapophyses) of adjacent vertebrae
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intervertebrals

75
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side-to-side movements of vertebral column

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short epaxials

76
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arch & support the vertebral column

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short & long bundles

77
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attach to & move the skull

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most anterior bundles

78
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  • myosepta & ribs restricted to the thorax
  • hypaxials form 3 layers: external oblique, internal oblique, & transverse
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modern amniotes

79
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  • weakly developed in most fish;
  • ‘stronger’ in tetrapods
  • support ventral body wall & aid in arching the back
  • in mammals - rectus abdominis
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Rectus muscles

80
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  • hypobranchials extend forward from pectoral girdle & insert on mandible, hyoid, and gill cartilages
  • hypobranchials strengthen floor of pharynx and assist branchiomeric muscles in elevating floor of mouth, lowering jaw, and extending gill pouches
81
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  • hypobranchials stabilize and move hyoid apparatusand larynx
  • the tongue of amniotes is a ‘sac’ anchored to hyoid skeleton & filled with hypobranchial muscle
82
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  • consists of a number of electric disc piles in either vertical or horizontal columns
  • each disc (electroplax) is a large coin-shaped cells
  • functions: defense, communication, locating prey (electrolocation)
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Electric organs

ZZZ - ZOO100 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Phylogeny (17 decks)

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